[EM] Proportional, Accountable, Local (PAL) representation: isn't this a big deal?

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

Jameson Quinn wrote:

>     * A multimember-district system helps with the above problems, but
>       doesn't actually solve them. Who wants a system where ballots are
>       only a little bit too complex, where you only sort of know who
>       your representative is, and which is only mostly proportional?

Multimember systems have been used in the US, on a local scale. The lack 
of such systems in the current day might just as well be due to that 
there is no modern day "League of Proportional Representation" such as 
the one whose efforts helped get STV into New York, than that 
multimember systems themselves are too complex.